Microsoft home goes WEB2.0

Recent years saw the Microsoft stock around the 30 dollar mark. Bill & Steve tried various things like, stepping down, giving back to the shareholders and recently Bill announcing his exit.
But alas as the stock price of their peers hit all time highs, Microsoft was stuck in a one way street.

Enter web2.0 and the investment craze that followed. Ok I'll admit it isn't like 1999 where you get financing with out a business plan, but still it is getting more and more easier..... (drop me a line if you are sitting on some cash). Bill & Steve must have realized this and ordered a complete redesign of the Microsoft portal complete with a drag and drop menu. Enjoy

Michael Arrington picks the next Google

Friday I attended the next web event in Amsterdam. One of the better presentations was done by techcrunch editor (in chief) Michael Arrington. He presented his "hottest startup companies" list.

Allpeers private p2p, firefox extension based on bittorent
Bebo myspace challenger
Facebook online dictionary more pageviews than google
Last fm music social network but he likes Pandora better
Netvibes modern version of the old yahoo link list, but with full customization > homepage widgets
Riya photo share with facial recognition
Wikio combination of digg and technorati
Youtube videosharing
Zlango icon based sms new language viral
Digg news site, we all know, new york times & wired magazine freaked out

Please be aware that he didn't sleep for 30 hours prior to making this list.